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Drag some files into your browser and instantly get a link to share them with family or friends. It's this simplicity, along with a staggering 10GB of free storage space, that puts Minus among the best file sharing tools on the web today. Last December we profiled the then-new photo sharing tool Minus. The web app only worked for photos then. Almost a year later and Minus does so much more.
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While the whole line of Windows Live products seems to have received a growing positive response, even more so with the revamp in looks and features, Windows Live services still seem a bit under hyped. One such service, Windows Live Skydrive, is (according to this author) highly underrated. Here we’ll take a look at the mobile site that serves up Windows Live Skydrive on Safari and any other browser on the iPhone.
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The popular music streaming site MOG announced on Thursday that it would be launching a service called FreePlay, which means that subscribers to the site would be able to get free access to MOG's 12 million song catalog. This new service follows on the heels of the European-based, ad-supported, music streaming service, Spotify, that reached the US market starting in July.
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There are many reasons we might need or want to share our phone number with strangers but giving out our private phone number can be risky. However thanks to a cloud-based system and company called RingCentral, iPhone users can now generate temporary phone numbers that will forward calls to their permanent number, and it is available for free for a limited time.
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If you are the kind of person who edits your documents on the go, then you need two things to accomplish your task. The first is a device that will allow you to access your documents wherever you are, and the second is a text editor which can make sure that your documents will be accessible everywhere you go.
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Today's new music tool is JamCloud, which is an awesome new way of listening to music and watching videos socially. Users create listening rooms with their friends or like-minded listeners and vote on the tracks being played. DJs take turns and build ratings as they go, while anyone can build playlists for personal or public use.
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Amazon has recently released another version of its e-book reader called Kindle Cloud Reader. Unlike the iOS mobile Kindle app, the Cloud Reader is HTML 5 web-based in which Amazon members can access all of their Kindle library books via the web. This new reader comes partly in response to Apple’s 30% sales tax requirement for iOS app publishers.
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This powerhouse of a streamer cuts out the upload in favor of an on-demand streaming service, so provided your PC is on you have streaming access to your music anywhere in the world. Forget uploads, forget waiting for the iCloud and grab your iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone or any PC with an internet connection and have access to music you rightfully own.
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There are numerous ways to manage files in Dropbox. Maybe, need to get something into my Dropbox and just don’t have access to it right now. For these scenarios, some nice people invented services we can use to send files directly to our Dropbox, without using Dropbox. Look into some of them.
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Back up information you're currently trusting the cloud with to your own hard drive. With support for most Google products and a few others, including Twitter and IMAP mail, Cloud Export is a piece of software every cloud computing enthusiast should probably look into.
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Millions of us use Dropbox who allow you to increase your free storage by using their referral system. When you get someone else to sign up for a Dropbox account, you get an extra 250MB of additional space. But now if you’re a student or educator with a .edu email address, you can get double the credits for referrals.
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Most major IT companies seem convinced that shoving everything into giant data centres in the sky is the solution to many essential computing tasks. But what if you don’t want all your stuff on someone else’s servers? What if you want it at home, where you can physically touch it and have complete control over it?
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As the Internet gets bigger and bigger, so do the places needed to store all of that data. But where are these data centers exactly? Which ones are the largest and who owns them? How can we put 600 Exabytes into perspective so that we can truly understand its size?
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Another player in the online document collaboration field is Google Cloud Connect. Google Cloud Connect is a plugin for MS Office that connects your Office documents to your Google Docs. It serves both as a backup for your documents, and as a means to share, get feedback and collaborate on a document.
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A virtual office is a mobile office that is located on your computer or in the Cloud. If your job doesn't tie you down to a specific location, you can set up your tools to work from anywhere in the world. For more and more people, working remotely is becoming a realistic and challenging alternative to commuting to work in a traditional office.
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